My Custom Pics Have Been Stolen and are on Taobao!

[mayanbutterfly]

Can someone help me report this person?  My Mad Hatter and Edward Scissors Hooves along with other people's custom pics have been stolen and are on here... for sale...

I tried to report them but this wesite is hard to deal with!

http://item.taobao.com/item.htm?spm=a2106.m5221.1000384.3396.NiYUVv&id=18192225031&scm=1029.newlist-0.webpstd.0&ppath=&sku=

[moving to Trader Support ~ many thanks ~ hathorcat]

[shabbychicdee]

what the heck?   
what happens if someone bought one? they keep the money too 

[NoDivision]

Sadly this is not the first time this has happened. We've had a few other threads about it. Only people who have taobao accounts can report it, but hopefully a few people can help you out. It does seem that reporting it can get the pictures taken down, but then they'll just replace them with pictures of other customs, sadly :\

[StoryDreamer]

That's the same seller who did that the last time.  Ugh! I see she has still has the other stolen customs up there too.

Perhaps one thing that might deter these thieves is watermarks in the middle of the pictures? Light ones, but still there.

[scarletjul]

Ugh.  I'm so sorry that's happening to you.

I hope someone can report it.

[Lightning Twirl]

Noooo! :O I loathe when people do this and not mention the photo isnt theirs... especially with a custom! He is very cool looking btw, I love Alice and Wonderland! :p I hope someone who can get around the website can report it.

Post Merge: August 09, 2013, 09:57:45 PM

What if someone bought one!? I wonder what they would get....

[Galactica]

That's terrible! I did report that seller- I can't believe they're back up!

[Honeycomb]

I reported it twice now, but I don't think they will to do anything about it.

[partypony566]

Some people have no shame!!!!

[Unicorn_pops]

China doesn't see picture stealing as a crime. They do it all the time. It sucks though and hopefully with enough complaints they may pull them to stop being aggravated. Sorry they stole your pictures...but it's a compliment too...they like your work

[Vintergatan]

Perhaps one thing that might deter these thieves is watermarks in the middle of the pictures? Light ones, but still there.

YES!

I wish there could be a huge warning in the customs and art forums here "WATERMARK YOUR PICTURES"!

Unicorn_pops is right, you can't appeal to their conscience when their culture is so different from ours. Best thing to do is prevent them from doing it altogether, so please watermark your work!

[lovesbabysquirmy]

What is the seller's name?  I can't figure a thing out on the site...    Someone can even PM me.  Thanks for keeping us informed and safe!

[Katika]

China doesn't see picture stealing as a crime. They do it all the time. It sucks though and hopefully with enough complaints they may pull them to stop being aggravated. Sorry they stole your pictures...but it's a compliment too...they like your work

But this isn't *just* stealing a photo or even taking credit for creating the pony.  This is trying to *sell* an item that they don't even have!

[mayanbutterfly]

Thanks for your help... I'm going to add watermarks! 

[Vintergatan]

China doesn't see picture stealing as a crime. They do it all the time. It sucks though and hopefully with enough complaints they may pull them to stop being aggravated. Sorry they stole your pictures...but it's a compliment too...they like your work

But this isn't *just* stealing a photo or even taking credit for creating the pony.  This is trying to *sell* an item that they don't even have!

my guess is that they are recreating these customs.